Thomas Sankara: Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights...Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa. It is a reconquest that turns each one of us into a financial slave. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John W. Whitehead: The Deep State not only holds the nation's capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street ("which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater") and Silicon Valley. This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds. It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
İbrahim Kaypakkaya: Since there was no communist leadership to show the way to the masses, the popular opposition followed this or that reactionary clique and was squandered. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Alexander Hamilton: In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
V.J. Jerome: The revisionist theory of accretion through reforms, of a peaceful succession to Socialism, of the substitution of an inter-class coalition government for the dictatorship of the proletariat, is manifestly in diametric opposition to everything that Marxism stands for the notion of an arithmetic progression of democratic reforms until the cipher Socialism is attained, constitutes an outright denial of dialectics in the social process. It represents the rejection of the dialectics of democracy, and its replacement by the metaphysical concept of democracy as an abstract, immutable, class-transcending form of society, as a form of society which is ideal both for bourgeoisie and proletariat, and which can therefore best be achieved through the harmonious collaboration of the classes. This is the "Marxism" of social democracy. And against this degradation of the revolutionary theory of the proletariat, Leninism comes forward in struggle. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Chinua Achebe: When a rich man is sick, a poor man will pay him a visit to say sorry and wish him a speedy recovery. When a poor man is sick, he waits to recover then goes to tell that rich man that he has been sick. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cornelius Tacitus: The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as 'civilisation,' when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: Capitalists insulted the working class, saying that workers were illiterate, knowing neither music nor literature nor how to dress. Who make good clothes and build good houses? It is the workers. They lived miserably in the past, not because they were ignorant, but because they were poor. They are now well-off in a good world, but some of them still persist in that outdated way of life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: Consolidation of the triumph of the Cuban revolution is not only an important question on which the life or death, the rise or fall of the Cuban people depend. It is also a key factor in influencing the general development of the Latin-American revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Rosa Luxemburg: What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: There are different kinds of parliamentarism. Some utilise the parliamentary arena in order to win the favour of their governments, or, at best, to wash their hands of everything, like the Chkheidze group. Others utilise parliamentarism in order to remain revolutionary to the end, to perform their duty as Socialists and internationalists even under the most difficult circumstances. The parliamentary activities of some bring them into ministerial seats; the parliamentary activities of others bring them – to prison, to exile, to penal servitude. Some serve the bourgeoisie, others – the proletariat. Some are social-imperialists. Others are revolutionary Marxists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
The only reason why the Pyramids still exist in Africa today is because they were too heavy for Europeans to loot and put in their museums. - anonymous wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Erich Honecker: The GDR is a socialist state which differs fundamentally from all previous German state entities. Big business, bankers and big estate owners, fascists, militarists and revanchists (are) excluded from power. We (want) to include the whole working population. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Capital is the endless and limitless drive to go beyond its limiting barrier. Every boundary is and has to be a barrier for it. Else it would cease to be capital – money as self reproductive. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take control of that production. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: Those who walk about unkempt and unshaven in an attempt to show off a “proletarian fashion” are uncouth people who insult the working class. The working class is the noblest in the world. Some people try to find fault with people with neat appearance, regarding them as vain. They are seriously wrong. We are building communism so as to be well-off, not badly off. In former days proletarians were ill-clothed because they were poor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: African blood flows in our veins. Many of our ancestors came as slaves from Africa to this land. As slaves they struggled quite a great deal. They fought as members of the liberating army of Cuba. We're brothers and sisters of the people of Africa and we are ready to fight in their behalf. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: And the imperialists? Will they sit with their arms crossed? No! The system they practice is the cause of the evils from which we are suffering, but they will try to obscure the facts with spurious allegations, of which they are masters. They will try to compromise the conference and sow disunity in the camp of the exploited countries by offering them pittances. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John F. Kennedy: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
